CORRUPTION is a deeply ingrained issue in the political landscape, particularly in Papua New Guinea. This is a result of a transactional relationship between voters and politicians, where elections ...

PNG’s constitution allows a government a grace period of 18 months before a vote of no confidence can be brought to Parliament. Since 1977, every sitting prime minister has had to fend off threats of ...

While Australia and China have very different approaches in PNG, both are in working primarily with political elites, while alienating the New Guinean public. The state of emergency in Papua New ...

Australia's modest twentieth-century experience as the administering trustee for successive League of Nations and United Nations mandates over the South Pacific ‘external territories’ of Papua New ...

"In 2024, the same year democracy levels hit their lowest point since The Economist's Democracy Index was created in 2006, ...

Politics is a rough and tumble game that local political experts and historians say is currently filled with anger, finger ...

It marks the fifth challenge to Marape's leadership over a Pacific nation wracked by violence, instability - and a ...

The international investigations team at The Washington Post is tackling the issue of transnational repression — an urgent ...

East Timor is in a festive mood as it prepares for the arrival of Pope Francis on his first trip to the deeply Catholic ...

Some 56 nations from around the world will attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Samoa next month.

Pope Francis wrapped up a 12-day tour across the Southeast Asia region on Thursday, marking the longest international trip of ...

As Chapter 4 has demonstrated, there is evidence that preferential voting, when used in Papua New Guinea's early national elections, encouraged a degree of collaboration and accommodation between ...